Homer Vs Lisa and the 8th Commandment Review

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Original air engagement: two/vii/1991

Production code: 7F13

Homer gets an illegal cable claw-up, which causes Lisa to worry for her father's soul, as she learned nigh the 8th Commandment in Sun school ("Thou shalt not steal") and begins seeing theft everywhere she looks.

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Tropes:

• Adult Fear: While Lisa'due south nightmarish Imagine Spot shows her fears of going to Hell depicted in Fire and Brimstone Hell style, Homer's shows his fears of being isolated from his family (or at least everyone but Bart).
• Anyone Retrieve Pogs?: Barney asks Moe why the bar doesn't have cable Television. He replies, "It was that, or the mechanical bull. (camera pans dorsum to prove the cobweb encrusted balderdash) I fabricated my choice, and I stand by it."
• Being Skillful Sucks: Homer misses the match and deprives himself of cable later his censor gets the better of him.

  Lisa: Dad, we may have just saved your soul.
  Homer: Yeah, at the worst possible fourth dimension!

• Torso Wipe: With Homer, as he is putting his human foot downward, afterward bickering with Marge about unplugging the cablevision.
• Call-Back: While Homer is watching Tv set, i audio prune heard is Scratchy saying "Lemonade?"
• Characterization Marches On:
  • It seems unusual for Lisa to exist so gung-ho nigh Christian morals afterwards she's been a Buddhist for several seasons, not to mention more than concerned with the environment and social justice than her own moral status. She still would non be okay with Homer stealing, of course, but the point is that there would be some other reason for it than the one of this episode.
  • Despite the episode existence heavily rooted in Christian morality, Ned Flemish region is just seen in the opening scene, and his angry reaction to being offered free cablevision is shown to be the issue of him just generally disliking criminals rather than being a violation of the Eighth Commandment, which is what you'd expect him to object to. Likewise, he briefly mentions that he got bones cable because he wanted to watch the arts and crafts channel; while this isn't completely inconsistent with his more than established graphic symbol, simply nigh whatever future episode would have shown him more than interested in the Christian channels.
• Corrupt Cop: Some cops show up at the Simpson residence upon being informed Homer has an illegal cable claw-upwardly. Homer is initially afraid they're there to arrest him but they tell him they only want to watch the match.
• Couch Gag: The Simpsons do an Egyptian trip the light fantastic earlier jumping on the burrow in a "Ta-da" pose.
• Deadpan Snarker: Lisa forces Marge to admit she ate two grapes to a grocery store clerk. Rather than comically overreacting, the clerk does not care and openly mocks Marge for asking to be charged for them.

  Clerk: Uh, I need a price check on two grapes. Yeah, you heard me, Phil. 2 beggarly... stinkin' grapes.

• Digital Piracy Is Evil: This trope is played remarkably directly. Even the guy who hooks upwards the cable is later shown to exist stealing motorcar stereos and breaking into houses. Homer, who'southward shown to take stolen from Moe'southward and work and is an unabashed alcoholic and Jerkass, comes to view this (although only afterward Lisa and Marge guilt-tripped him to the point he gave in) as a kind of evil fifty-fifty he can't support.
• Dirty Kid: Bart takes a liking to the developed programming on Top Hat Entertainment, and charges all the other boys in the neighborhood to come up sentinel it.
• Afar Prologue: "Mt. Sinai: 1220 B.C.", when the commandments are kickoff announced.
• Early Installment Weirdness:
  • When Homer says he just invited a few shut friends to watch the fight, and and so Apu shows upwards, it's meant every bit a joke: the idea is that Homer has actually invited anyone and everyone to watch the fight, fifty-fifty if they're less a "close friend" and more just a "guy I see at the convenience shop a lot". Since this episode aired, all the same, the show has actually built upward the friendship betwixt Apu and the Simpson family, to the point where him showing upward at a gathering of Homer's close friends would make complete sense.
  • The episode beingness so steeped in Christian values can come off as incredibly weird for the Simpsons considering mocking conservative Christians and Christianity in general would get 1 of the most common targets for them in the later seasons.
• Felony Misdemeanor: Lisa makes Marge feel similar a criminal for stealing from her local supermarket (and Marge tearfully confesses to the cashier), which is a bit of an overreaction when you consider that all Marge did was eat two grapes.
• Funny Groundwork Upshot: Jimbo Jones can twice be seen stealing things in the background, at the supermarket and after at the Kwik-east-Mart.
• Holier Than Grand: Lisa actually lays information technology on thick over the 8th Commandment. When she guilts Marge into paying for two grapes she sampled at the grocery store, the clerk is annoyed that he has to telephone call in a price bank check for two grapes.
• I Am Not Shazam: In-universe. Bart's comments while watching hours of movies on cable: "This is where Jaws eats the boat!" "This is where Die Hard jumps out the window!" "This is where Wall Street gets arrested!"
• Insistent Terminology: When Mr. Burns shows up to lookout man the fight, Homer tells Bart to hibernate the stuff he "borrowed" from work. Bart won't obey until Homer admits that, past "borrowed", he really ways "stole".
• Insufferable Genius / Rightly Cocky-Righteous: Lisa and Marge guilt trip Homer into giving up cable. Homer eventually admits defeat, but tells them he loathes them for it. They just smirk in response. Earlier, Lisa did the same to Marge over testing ii grapes in store, Marge was similarly annoyed past it while Lisa just smiled. She's right and both sides sure know information technology.
• Leaning on the 4th Wall: At the very end, when Homer cuts the cable, the picture is replaced past static just before the credits, implying the viewers was also stealing cable.
• Missing the Skilful Stuff: In addition to guilt-tripping him into accepting that stealing cablevision is wrong, Marge and Lisa guilt-trip Homer into staying outside the house while the boxing lucifer is on (and Homer forces Bart to stay outside, too). As a consequence, while a big number of people are inside partying, the Simpsons males are suffering in silence.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Drederick Tatum is a parody of Mike Tyson. His opponent Watson is based on Marvin Hagler.
• Offer Void In Nebraska:

  "You're watching Top Chapeau Entertainment. Adult programming all twenty-four hour period, every day. Except in Florida and Utah."

  • The line refers to land and municipal ordinances in those two states attempted during the 1980s that sought to prohibit cable systems from transmitting objectionable content offered past mainstream and developed-oriented pay television receiver services, through lawsuits filed by HBO and other groups, were struck down in district and circuit courts on First Amendment grounds.
• Oh, Crap!: Homer afterwards realizing he but bought cable from a criminal who breaks into people's houses.
• OOC Is Serious Business organisation: The ordinarily friendly Ned is furious that he was offered illegal cablevision claw-upward and yells at the shady cable man to leave.
• Parallel Porn Titles: The two adult films Bart watched are Stardust Mammories and Circulate Nudes.
• Shout-Out: The sequence where Homer stops the cablevision guy'due south truck is a frame-by-frame homage to Northward By Northwest. The plate on the truck fifty-fifty reads ''1NBNW''.
• Skewed Priorities: Lisa chews out Marge for "stealing" two grapes, while in the groundwork Jimbo Jones is visibly stealing several far more than valuable items.
• Soapbox Sadie: From the moment Lisa learns about the commandments (particularly the eighth, "Thou Shalt Not Steal") she gets on it and guilt-trips her entire family into accepting that stealing is incorrect and getting varying degrees of humiliation every bit a event (Marge is insulted by a jackass clerk and Homer accidentally cuts the power to the entirety of Evergreen Terrace trying to cut the cablevision).
• Special Guest: Phil Hartman as the Cable Guy, Moses and Troy McClure
  • And a bunch of the voices on TV. They really got their money'southward worth out of Hartman's appearance!
• Stealing from the Till: Homer. When Burns and Smithers arrive to the Simpsons' house to see the lucifer, the erstwhile asks Bart to hide a lot of stuff he borrow..., er, stole from the ability establish, from pencils to a computer, before the latter enter.
• This Is the Role Where...: "...Jaws eats the boat!" "...Die Difficult jumps through the window!" "...Wall Street gets arrested!"
• Fourth dimension Passes Montage: While Homer and the rest of the family lookout man cable Boob tube afterward they first got it, a potted plant sapling appears next to the burrow (information technology wasn't there earlier in the scene). Every bit the montage progresses, the institute grows bigger during each fade to the following scene. At the finish of the montage, at which point, Marge tells Homer to become ready for church while he's watching Davey and Goliath, the plant has withered.

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